Anyone know about Lyme disease?

I know someone who has lyme disease, he says its treatable but not entirely curable. I read a news blurb on the president saying he HAD lyme disease. Can someone clairfy? I thought it never really fully went away.

Meaning that he did have a case of Lyme disease... but he was treated. This means that he longer has lyme disease. However, this is what I think you are cluing into, he can still be tested to see if he ever had Lyme disease. In other words, he would still be EIA positive (it takes a series of tests and more information that is going deep into this).
Basically though, he NO longer has Lyme disease. Just the antibodies to them (just like you have the antibodies to a particular cold virus strain after it has been resolved).

Lyme disease normally comes from ticks, although there are 2 other ways. It can last from months to years after treatment.

Most Lyme disease is curable.

Lyme disease is a bacterial infection of the joints. I don't see why they wouldn't be able to clear it up completely.

I had lymes and I have been told it will always be in my system. In 5 years it has reared it"s ugly head 3 time"s.
Miserable

You can cure the systoms of lyme disease but you never really get rid of the diesease itself. It sort of becomes dormaint. It can come back later and flare back up. It affects the joints and nerves of the body, most people get it from ticks. It can not be passed from one person to another though. Here are some sites about it.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/
http://www.lymenet.org/
http://www.lyme.org/
It is a serious condition that could become fatal if not treated. If you think you may have this, please consult a doctor.

Since there are 2 standards of care for Lyme disease, and they are practically opposite, it makes a huge difference where you go for information. Doctors have obviously told the president that he has been cured. However it may not be curable in some people.

The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA), the government, and the insurance companies want you to believe it is rare, easy to diagnose, most people who think they have it, don't really, and even if they do, it's easy to cure, or if you were treated and still aren't well, maybe you had Lyme once, but now you don't, you have "Post-Lyme Syndrome." (PLS)

On the other side of the fence is the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), most of the patient support and advocacy groups, including Lyme Disease Association and affiliates, LymeNet, LymeInfo, and others. They believe Lyme is much more common than most people think, and that although early disease is usually easy to cure, Lyme can become chronic and require longterm treatment and sometimes combination treatments, especially when the person has tick-borne co-infections. Duration of treatment is determined by patient response, not by an arbitrary, one-size-fits-all method.

The first treatment style has a failure rate around 60%. The Connecticut attorney general has launched a civil investigation of the IDSA for possible monopolistic practices in the formulation of its guidelines. All of the IDSA guidelines authors have commercial interests in Lyme disease patents, test kits, and vaccines. Insurance companies use the IDSA guidelines to justify denials of reimbursement for treatment to people with chronic Lyme. State medical boards also use IDSA guidelines to prosecute doctors who treat people with chronic Lyme disease with more than IDSA guidelines say is needed. So far more than 40 Lyme-treating doctors have had their licenses restricted or revoked for "over-diagnosis" and "over-treatment."

So, for info about Lyme disease, be careful where you get it. You will get a completely different picture depending on the source.